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TIL that North Korean reporters and photographers, were required to photograph Kim Il-Sung while standing slightly to his left to hide a large tumor on his neck

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WDE8 TIL that Japanese Buddhists would self-sacrifice by sealing themselves inside a ship boarded-up like a coffin. At sea they either pulled a wooden plug from the hull and drowned or died of thirst or starvation.
xVLrb TIL about Pedro Rodrigues Filho, the killer who only targetted at criminals and those had wronged him. He was sentenced 126 years imprisonment, but since he kept killing criminals during his time in prison, his sentences was raised to 400 years.
pY65N TIL CHEP started as an Australian Government initiative to reuse left over US Army pallets from WW2
W7GxA TIL: Only members of the genus Homo can touch the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.
4kgj6 TIL that this is how American school children addressed the flag during the pledge until 1942, when it was changed to the hand over the heart.